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 3852 RECIPROCAL TRADE-HONDUR.AS. Promotionoftmde. WHEREAS I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, have found as a fact that certain existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States of America and the Republic of Honduras are unduly burdening and restricting the foreign trade Vol. 46, p. 708; Vol. of the United States of America and that the purpose declared in the 48,p .943. said Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by the said Act of June 12, 1934, will be promoted by a foreign trade agreement between the United States of America and the Republic of Honduras; Notice given. WHEREAS reasonable public notice of the intention to negotiate such foreign trade agreement was given and the views presented by persons interested in the negotiation of such agreement were received and considered; ter'Zr1:t~eement en- WHEREAS, after seeking and obtaining information and advice with respect thereto from the United States Tariff Commission, the Departments of State, Agriculture, and Commerce, and from other sources, I entered into a foreign Trade Agreement on December 18, 1935, through my duly empowered Plenipotentiary, with the Presi- dent of the Republic of Honduras through his duly empowered Pleni- potentiary, which Agreement, including two Schedules annexed thereto, in the English and Spanish languages, is in words and figures as follows: Purposes declared. PREAMBLE The President of the United States of America and the Presi- dent of the Republic of Honduras, being desirous of strengthening the traditional bonds of friend- ship between the two countries by maintaining the principle of equality of treatment as the basis of commercial relations and by grantin~ mutual and reciprocal conceSSIOns and advantages for the promoti~n of trade, have through their respective Pleni- potentiaries arrived at the fol- lowing Agreement: ARTICLE I En::tcla~ Am~d Articles the growth, produce ~Hond~.mpor or manufacture of the United States of America, enumerated P'>8t, p. 3866. and described in Schedule I an- nexed to this Agreement and made a part thereof, shall, on their importation into the Repub- lic of Honduras, be exempt from ordir.ary customs duties in excess of those set forth in the said Schedule. The said articles shall also be exempt from all other duties, taxes, fees, charges or PREAMBULO EI Presidente de los Estados Unidos de America y el Presidente de la Republica de Honduras, deseando estrechar los vinculos tradicionales de aInistad entre los dos paises por el manteniIniento del principio de igualdad de trata- Iniento, como base de sus rela- ciones comerciales, y por con- cesiones y ventajas mutuas y reci"procas para la promoci6n del comercio, han llegado por medio de sus respectivos Plenipotencia- rios al siguiente Convenio: ARTICULO I Los art-iculos cosechados, pro~ ducidos, manufacturados 0 fabri- cados en Estados U nidos de America, enumerados y descritos en 10, Lists nUmero I anexa a este Convenio y que forma parte del Inismo, estaran exentos, al ser imporhdos a la Republica de Hon- duras, de los derechos ordinarios de Aduana en exceso de los especifica- dos en. dicha Lista. Dichos articu- los estaran tambien exentos de todos los otro!'l derechos,impuestos,